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The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future
Author(s): Hermann Scheer (Author)
- Publisher: Earthscan Ltd
- Publication Date: 5 Aug. 2002
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 1853838357
- ISBN-13: 9781853838354
Book Description
An account of how the global economy can and must replace its dependence on fossil fuels with solar and renewable energy – and the enormous and multiple benefits which will follow. The author explodes the myth that fossil fuel is “cheaper” and maps the road towards renewable energy that will create a genuinely sustainable global economy – and the only secure prospects for future prosperity that can be shared worldwide. Scheer’s book offers an alternative programme to what he believes is the fruitless and doomed process of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and international negotations to reach a consensus with the existing fossil-fuel lobby.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Shows how political, economic and technological challenges can be met using indigenous, renewable and universally available resources. — GÜNTHER GRASS, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
A masterwork by the master advocate for solar —
JEREMY LEGGETT, author of The Carbon WarThis book is of the greatest importance for the future of mankind —
GÜNTHER GRASS, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureThis is the most powerfully written book on the energy situation that this reviewer has ever read…Highly recommended. —
ChoiceAbout the Author
Hermann Scheer is a member of the German parliament (the Bundestag) and Chairman of Eurosolar. One of the most active and influential campaigners for solar and renewable energy, he was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize in 1999. [German edition, Solare Weltwirtschaft, published by Kunstmann Verlag, 2001; 25,000 copies sold.]
